Turing instability and spatially homogeneous Hopf bifurcation in a diffusive Brusselator system

The present paper deals with a reaction-diffusion Brusselator system subject to the homogeneous Neumann boundary condition. When the effect of spatial diffusion is neglected, the local asymptotic stability and the detailed Hopf bifurcation of the unique positive equilibrium of the associated ODE system are analyzed. In the stable domain of the ODE system, the effect of spatial diffusion is explored, and local asymptotic stability, Turing instability and existence of Hopf bifurcation of the constant positive equilibrium are demonstrated. In addition, the direction of spatially homogeneous Hopf bifurcation and the stability of the spatially homogeneous bifurcating periodic solutions are also investigated. Finally, numerical simulations are also provided to check the obtained theoretical results.